The present invention is a system and method for conducting survey using
wireless devices. The system architecture of the present invention
comprises a location server and a location system. The location server
can receive a survey request from a subscriber, delineate a survey area
for the survey, broadcast a query containing the survey to a plurality of
wireless devices, process responses received from the wireless devices,
and delivers a result of the survey to the subscriber. The location
system can generate location information for each of the wireless devices
that received the query. The location system may be a network-based unit
or a portable unit provisioned at each of the wireless devices. In the
preferred embodiment, the location system is a GPS receiver that
generates the longitude and the latitude of the wireless device at which
it is provisioned.